Excelsior Scholarship Recipients and Dollars by College: Beginning 2017

Academic year 2017-18 was the first award year for the Excelsior Scholarship program. This dataset shows the number of award recipients and award dollars by college for the program. The data is provided by data.ny.gov and was last updated on 2026-05-22.

Use Cases

• Analyze scholarship distribution by institution type using Sector Type and TAP Sector Group.
• Track annual award trends and funding allocation using Academic Year, Scholarship Dollars, and Scholarship Headcount.
• Join with other higher education datasets using Federal School Code or TAP College Code as a key.
• Compare award amounts and recipient counts across different TAP College Names.

Strengths

• Data includes the first award year (2017-18) for the Excelsior Scholarship program.
• Provides multiple institutional identifiers (Federal School Code, TAP College Code) for data linkage.
• Contains both monetary (Scholarship Dollars) and count (Scholarship Headcount) metrics.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov

Time Range

Beginning 2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 21:02:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York State, United States